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Robert Mayhew is a professor of philosophy at Seton Hall University, where he has taught for over twenty years.

Dr. Mayhew’s primary research interests are in ancient philosophy. His most recent publication in the field is Theophrastus of Eresus: On Winds (Brill). Other books are Prodicus the Sophist (Oxford UP); Aristotle: Problems (Harvard UP); and Plato: Laws 10 (Oxford UP). He recently completed a book on Aristotle’s lost Homeric Problems.

Dr. Mayhew also has a serious scholarly interest in Ayn Rand. He is the author of Ayn Rand and “Song of Russia”: Communism and Anti-Communism in 1940s Hollywood,and editor of a collection of essays on each of her four novels.He has also edited some of Ayn Rand’s previously unpublished works:Ayn Rand’s Marginalia,The Art of Nonfiction,Ayn Rand Answers, and most recently, Ayn Rand’sThe Unconquered (a play based on We the Living).

Dr. Mayhew serves on the boards of the Ayn Rand Institute and the Anthem Foundation for Objectivist Scholarship.

Career Roles

Professor

Philosophy
Seton Hall University

Board Member

Board of Directors
Anthem Foundation for Objectivist Scholarship

Member

Steering Committee
Ayn Rand Society

Selected Work

Scholarly Articles

“‘God or Some Human’: On the Source of Law in Plato’s Laws” in Ancient Philosophy
2011

“Prayer in Plato’s Laws” in Apeiron
2008

“Aristotle on Prayer” in Rhizai
2007

“Persuasion and Compulsion in Plato, Laws 10” in Polis
2007

“M.G.M.’s Potemkin Church: Religion in Song of Russia” in American Communist History
2002

“Part and Whole in Aristotle’s Political Philosophy” in Journal of Ethics
1997